Sentences with phrase «from prosecution does»

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The sheriff wanted a criminal prosecution, or failing that some compensation from those companies for the damage they'd done.

That's why one of Dark Heart's facilities does not have a sign and the other one has a sign from the previous tenant — to protect the company from prosecution and from criminals.

And the European told me that in Europe, it's really a no - no to use customer funds for your own — to gamble with that at all, that this is so criminal that if there is no criminal prosecution of Corzine, if it turns out that he did take the money, then that is going to lead the European capital markets to withdraw their money from the American capital markets, because the whole — the whole of Wall Street would turn out to be gangsters, without any prosecution, without any rule of law at all.

Second, although the indictment says clearly that Trump's people «unwittingly» got help from Russians, does that mean that they're legally protected from prosecution?

The IRS also has gone on to say that if the situation is indeed dire, the taxpayers who have sought to hide their cryptocurrency earnings from the IRS can actually be subjected to proper criminal prosecution if they do not report their earnings.

How did we become a country where powerful employers can purchase immunity from criminal prosecution for their employees?

Well he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very proud

Does the RCC or does it not harbor pedophiles and keep them from prosecution??? If I'm a bigot for having an issue with that, so beDoes the RCC or does it not harbor pedophiles and keep them from prosecution??? If I'm a bigot for having an issue with that, so bedoes it not harbor pedophiles and keep them from prosecution??? If I'm a bigot for having an issue with that, so be it!

Not only has Rumsfeld threatened sources with legal prosecution, from the Briefing Room podium, on national television, he notes, but the Pentagon also refuses to confirm or deny much of the information that reporters do manage to find out, thus ensuring that the news that does reach the public is often riddled with guesswork and error.

PPG Paints Arena does have a policy for fans throwing objects on the ice that states «guests not abiding by this Fan Courtesy Policy are subject to ejection from PPG Paints Arena and in some cases subject to criminal prosecution.»

Does it only shield Arizona businesses from state - level prosecution of religiously motivated discrimination, but still leave them liable to federal discrimination prosecutions?

More significantly, it doesn't have the «reasonable» caveat in the bill protecting shop keepers from prosecution for misuse of items like glue.

From that perspective, the state does not have to provide anything but can always forgo prosecution.

The prosecution's star witness in the retrial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver acknowledged Tuesday that he didn't expect anything in return from the powerful legislator for referrals of cancer patients to a Silver - linked law firm.

To ensure that proceedings don't suffer due to ineffective or biased prosecution, my third Bill proposes to increase accountability and transparency in the appointment of prosecutors so as to shield them from political interference.

The Communications Committee's inquiry into revenge pornography found that the social media guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) did not specifically refer to this offence.

Over two days as a prosecution witness, Hoffmann testified that he did not know about the town's potential liability for the loans until he received a telephone call almost three years ago from a Newsday reporter — and then went to town officials to find out what was going on.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove didn't require French to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when he testified before the grand jury — a decision that made it impossible to bring charges against French after his testimony.

But Cuomo says laws and prosecutions can't prevent some politicians from doing «stupid things.»

From ending the prosecution of most low - level marijuana arrests to making it easier for Brooklynites to resolve outstanding warrants for low - level offenses, Ken Thompson didn't just uphold the law — he made it more fair for all Brooklynites.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

He said, «Today we are handing over of the expired drugs seized from Zuma to NAFDAC who are responsible for prosecution of those that had to do with licit drugs, because the licit drugs are outside the jurisdiction of NDLEA.

Mr Nicklinson wants the judges presiding over his case to rule that, if he makes the informed decision to end his life, a doctor will be immune from prosecution if they help him to do so.

Responding to a question asked by Usoro, the witness said he was only reading from the documents handed to him by the prosecution, adding, «I did not say I knew about the issues.»

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove did not require Sgt. Randall French, the officer involved in the shooting, to waive his immunity from prosecution when he testified before the grand jury that cleared him five days after the shooting.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove, who personally presented the case to the grand jury that cleared French, did not require the officer to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when the officer testified before the grand jury that cleared him — a highly unusual move that makes it virtually impossible for any prosecutor to pursue potential future charges against French for conduct surrounding Thevenin's death.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

We the public have voted and we say no to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his quest to seek a third term in public office.In my opinion, this corporate micro-manager does not want to lose his political immunity while in public office from possible Federal prosecution for discriminating against three pregnant woman who lost their job's in his company.

Justice Affen who praised what he described as the «gallant efforts» of the counsels to the defendant, however said his earlier order prohibiting the EFCC from rearresting Dasuki did not constitute immunity from «further prosecution.»

Seibel also ruled against the prosecution's assertion that St. Lawrence intentionally withheld an $ 800,000 debt from the town board, and said she doesn't see these two rulings as grounds for a mistrial.

Singapore is hoping that just the threat of the new law preventing a company or its executives from doing business in the banking hub will be a strong enough deterrent without needing to make many prosecutions.

The other argument is that Higuera did not include information from a prosecution interview with Steve Carr, an organic chemist employed by the Los Angeles County Sanitation District.

The trial scenes (featuring «Mad Men's» John Slattery for the prosecution) drag on a bit, as does pretty much everything else in this 115 - minute extravaganza, suggesting that MacFarlane and co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild don't always know their A material from their B material.

(«James eventually pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of illegally processing drug documents after the prosecution determined that, while he did not steal any drugs from the shelter, he knew that they were being taken and did nothing about it.»

«Calling the challengers brave, Gableman wrote that their litigation gave the court «an opportunity to re-endorse its commitment to upholding the fundamental right of each and every citizen to engage in lawful political activity and to do so free from the fear of the tyrannical retribution of arbitrary or capricious governmental prosecution.

Do they have some sort of diplomatic immunity from prosecution?

But it is no wonder that scientists shy away from delving any further into the political sphere — take, for example, Senator James Inhofe (R - Oklahoma), who called for the prosecution of respected climate scientists by the Justice Department, attacking the integrity and character of these scientists because his political ideology does not match their findings.

Such officers are immune from prosecution for everything they do during their time in office.

If you choose the married filing separately tax status, you can get protection from audits and prosecution, but you need to remember that you are still 100 % liable for any unpaid taxes, regardless of who earned the income, falsified his or her tax return, or didn't file.

However, the SFO concluded that there was nothing to justify the formal prosecution of the company or any individual as the company did not obtain a commercial advantage and no individual employee benefitted financially from the conduct.

Never run away from an accident as doing so may make you subject to criminal prosecution.

«I don't think that people should anticipate that the backlog of the courts is largely due to prosecutions from minor possessions of marijuana,» says Edward Prutschi, partner at Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman Criminal Litigation, when asked whether legalizing marijuana will assist in dealing with court delays.

Simon's article, the «take - no - prisoners» tone of which left me slack - jawed, contends that there is a systemic, recurring problem that arises when well - heeled clients go shopping for expert exonerations - sometimes prior to doing something shady, sometimes after they've already done it — to immunize themselves from civil liability or criminal prosecution.

Lee's trial lawyer, who later died, didn't challenge the prosecution's contention that the fire was deliberately set because he believed that the general acceptance of the fire science evidence at the time precluded him from making that claim.

If the injury is death, a criminal prosecution and an Art 2 claim is possible, but for those with injury from organisational failures, can we be sure that the hurdle of Bolam does not inhibit the law justly reflecting the science?

Not every case where the defense wins is a prosecution doomed from the beginning, but with no reasonable analysis of the verdict detailing why it was wrong and so much commentary on why it should never have started, one does have to ask, what were the prosecutors thinking?

As a conclusion, one can say that the CJEU did not only reply to the question raised by Advocate General Kokott whether «EU law require [s] the courts of the Member States to refrain from applying certain provisions of their national law on the limitation periods applicable to the prosecution of criminal offences in order to guarantee the effective punishment of tax offences» (§ 1 of the Opinion).

Or did he simply benefit from a double standard that pervades the prosecution of sex crimes?

The most important thing you can do to protect yourself and your family from these damaging consequences of prosecution is to retain the best criminal defense attorney possible.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.